The Brewers' Arms
THE BREWERS' ARMS, ST JAMES'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056953
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Brewers' Arms
- Statutory Address:
- THE BREWERS' ARMS, ST JAMES'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056953
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Brewers' Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BREWERS' ARMS, ST JAMES'S STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE BREWERS' ARMS, ST JAMES'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Petherton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43268 16911
Details
SOUTH PETHERTON CP ST JAMES'S STREET (East side) ST4316 7/154 The Brewers' Arms (formerly listed as Bell Inn) 19.4.61
GV II
Inn. Dated 1622, but largely rebuilt in 1925. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; diamond asbestos-cement slates between stepped coped gables; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays, of which bay 4 is a later addition in ashlar. Plinth; ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses, 3- light to upper bays 1 and 3, partly set into small coped gables each having a rectangular date plaque, and 4-light to lower bays 1 and 3, all with 1abels: 2-light to bay 2, of which the lower has a label: to right of bay a cambered- arched dooray under deep lintel without label, up 3 steps; bay 4 has wide elliptical arch with imposts and keystone, over which is a 3-light hollow-chamfer mullioned window in chamfered recess without label: between upper bays 2/3 a projecting hanging sign. Interior not seen. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4326816911
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264239
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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